DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Elasticsearch vs. Faircom DB vs. Interbase vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Elasticsearch vs. Faircom DB vs. Interbase vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Elastic

FairCom Corporation

Embarcadero

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

2010

1979

1984

2016

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

8.6, January 2023

V12, November 2020

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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